The purpose of this study is to determine the degree of perceived stress, fine dust risk perception, and resilience in patients with respiratory and circulatory disorders, and investigate the relationship between these variables.

A questionnaire survey was conducted on 184 patients with respiratory and circulatory diseases over the age of 20 and analyzed using descriptive statistics, Pearson’s correlation coefficient, and stepwise regression analysis using the SPSS program.

The study found perceived stress, resilience, family relationship, and type of disease to be factors affecting the stress response of people with respiratory and circulatory disorders.

Understanding the perceived stress, resilience, family relationship, and type of respiratory and circulatory disorder prevents stress response and contributes to stress nursing.

Immobilization as restraint stress is recognized as a psychologically stressful event. The stress responses alter both neuroendocrine and neurochemistry in an acute and long-term manner. We investigated whether the effect of chronic repetitive restraint stress could elicit levels of corticosterone and related neurochemical alterations.

Nine-week-old Sprague-Dawley rats (the stressed group) were subjected to restraint stress in a hemi-cylindrical apparatus nocturnally in seven consecutive days. The handled control group was a sustained-controlled husbandry, and the stressed group was returned to the same home cage immediately after daily restraint sessions. On day 14, all subjects were sacrificed and neurochemical assessment was performed. Plasma corticosterone levels were measured on days 1, 7, and 14 following a 7-day recovery period. The activity of exploration was measured on day 5 of the stress session for 5 min to expose the novel open field. On day 14, tyrosine hydroxylase, c-fos, and NADPH-diaphorase immunohistochemistry was performed in the locus coeruleus and hypothalamic PVN (paraventricular nucleus) in the brain, respectively.

The repetitive restraint stress elicits a retarded growth pattern and lowers locomotive activity at the acute phase. During the stressed session, higher levels of plasma corticosterone and nNOS (neuronal nitric oxide synthase) activity in the hypothalamus. Furthermore, the upregulated changes were prolonged seven days after the stress-free recovery period, chronically.

Chronic repetitive restraint stress may acutely alter neuroendocrine and behavioral changes via the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis, and its phenomenon is sustained as a physiological maladaptation, depending on neurochemical alterations related to hypothalamic nNOS activity.

The purpose of this study was to examine the mediating effects of Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction Program on Stress response, self-efficacy, emotional intelligence and burnout among nurses.

The study was a nonequivalent control group pretest-posttest design, with 34 participants (experimental group: 17, control group: 17). The Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction program for Small and Medium Sized Hospital Nurses for this study was conducted in pre-class, in-class, and post-class stages for a total of 8 weeks Data were analyzed with an independent t-test and repeated measures ANOVA.

The experimental group showed significant improvement in stress response (F=3.37, p=.041), burnout (F=3.38, p=.040), emotional intelligence (F=5.10, p=.009) and self-efficacy (F=3.51, p=.049).

The results of this study show that MBSR program is an effective stress management method for small and medium Sized Hospital Nurses. Therefore, the MBSR program is recommended to nurses and health care providers for stress management.